Word: karens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After receiving a clearing pass from Karen Bromberg, McNamara found Maureen Murphy breaking free behind the Wellesley net, and the Radcliffe senior wasted little time in knotting the score with barely a minute remaining...
...because Karen was not "brain dead," few lawyers were surprised when Judge Robert Muir ruled against any "pulling of the plug." Last week the state Supreme Court turned that result around. Chief Justice and former Governor Richard Hughes concluded that if doctors and a hospital ethics committee agree "that there is no reasonable possibility of Karen's ever emerging from her present comatose condition . . . the life-support system may be withdrawn . . . without any civil or criminal liability" for anyone involved...
...right to privacy grows as the degree of bodily invasion increases and the prognosis dims." The chief justice added that if a patient cannot exercise his or her rights, then a guardian-usually the next of kin-may do so. The court thus entrusted her father, Joseph Quinlan, with Karen's right to die, and he may turn to other doctors or hospitals if Karen's present medical caretakers continue to refuse to disconnect the respirator...
...precipitate end to Karen's life is likely, since her family will wait until the state of New Jersey has decided whether to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Meanwhile, most legal observers found little fault with the decision. "It goes along with what is already normally done by doctors in cases where it is determined that additional treatment will have no ameliorative effect," says Attorney Stanton Price, a lecturer at the U.C.L.A. School of Public Health. Columbia Politics Professor Alan Westin, author of Privacy and Freedom, adds: "The court has said that, whether...
Radcliffe's first singles player, Denise Thal, set the pace for the team's victory with a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Karen Lerner...